Brine for Boiling Fish

Name: Brine for Boiling Fish
Ingredients: Salmon, 8 ozs.; Cod fish, lobsters, crabs, prawns, shrimps, 5 to 6 oz.; Cod fish, lobsters, crabs, prawns, shrimps, 5 to 6 oz.; Mackerel, whiting, and other small fish, 4 ounces of salt to a gallon of water.; Mackerel, whiting, and other small fish, 4 ounces of salt to a gallon of water.; Mackerel, whiting, and other small fish, 4 ounces of salt to a gallon of water.; Cod fish, lobsters, crabs, prawns, shrimps, 5 to 6 oz.; Cod fish, lobsters, crabs, prawns, shrimps, 5 to 6 oz.; Mackerel, whiting, and other small fish, 4 ounces of salt to a gallon of water.; Cod fish, lobsters, crabs, prawns, shrimps, 5 to 6 oz.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Modern Cookery for Private Families

By Eliza Acton

Published 1845

About

Ingredients

Mackerel, whiting, and other small fish, 4 ounces of salt to a gallon of water.

Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Fish is exceedingly insipid if sufficient salt be not mixed with the water in which it is boiled, but the precise quantity required for it will depend, in some measure, upon the kind of salt which is used. Fine common salt is that for which our directions are given; but when the Maldon salt, which is very superior in strength, as well as in other qualities, is substituted for it, a smaller quan